| 释义 |
yowling, vbl. n.|ˈjaʊlɪŋ|
[f. yowl v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb yowl; esp. the uttering of a prolonged wailing cry.
a1225Juliana 57 Ȝe, quoð eleusius, haldest tu ȝetten up o þi ȝuhelunge? a1250Owl & Night. 40 Me luste bet speten þane singe Of þine fule ȝoȝelinge [Jesus MS. howelynge]. Ibid. 1643 Mid ȝulinge & mid igrede. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxvii. 38 With a greet ȝowlyng [1388 ȝellyng; Vulg. ejulatu] he wepte. c1440Alphabet of Tales 179 He vanysshid away with grete crying & yowlyng. 1528Lyndesay Dreme 165 Ȝowtyng and ȝowlyng we hard, with mony ȝell. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 466 The water..strangled and swallowed vp my breath from youling and groaning. 1710Acc. Last Distemper of Tom Whigg i. 19 He..set all the Dogs in the Town a yowling. 1844Thackeray White Squall vi, Then the wind set up a howling, And the poodle dog a yowling. 1894W. C. Russell Good Ship ‘Mohock’ vii, The hoarse yowling of pulling and dragging sailors.
So ˈyowling ppl. a., that yowls.
c1590W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 193/11 All thir cold nights..I wishe for day,..disturb'd with youling hounds. 1790Alex. Wilson Callamphitres Elegy Poet. Wks. (1846) 104 Wi' yowling clinch auld Jennock ran. 1843Thackeray Men's Wives, Mr. & Mrs. Berry ii, Her little yowling black-muzzled darling of a Fido. 1899Baring-Gould Furze Bloom iii. 33 Think what it 'ud be wi' two yowlin' females under one roof! |